vishwanath Thrills of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
With ‘The Last of Us‘ becoming everyone’s favorite live-action adaptation of a video game franchise, I fondly remember playing the game years ago along with related apocalyptic/zombie favorites like Resident…
DQ Framework
Data quality is one of the biggest asks from consumers of the data in large scale implementations. As the scale of the data grows, so does complexity and the plethora…
Tenacity for retries
I discovered Tenacity while encountering a bunch of gobbledygook shell and python scripts crunched together that ran a critical data pipeline and had to figure out a quick retry logic…
Book Review – Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn
by Sebastian Raschka & Vahid Mirjalili I primarily wanted to read this book due to the Pytorch section and pretty much flipped through the Scikit learn section while absorbing and…
Asynchronicity with asyncio and aiohttp
The usual Synchronous versus Asynchronous versus Concurrent versus Parallel is a topic in technical interviews that usually leads to expanded conversations in the candidates overall competency on scaling and leads…
Genesis at MSG
I’ve enjoyed the different eras of Genesis regardless of the Peter Gabriel-era prog-rock or the later more commercial Collin-era hits. Regardless of the timeline, the Hackett-Rutherford guitar soundscapes made me…
Zone of Proximal Development
Essentially ZPD is the place where once cannot progress in their learning without the interaction of a person who is high skilled at that learning objective. In a group setting,…
Merkle Trees for Comparisons – Example
A hash-based comparison approach like Merkle tree would help quickly compare two copies of a range of data on different replicas. This is also a core part of blockchains like…
First Principles – Replay
First Principles is a collaboration between Bass Player/ Composer Arjun Raghuraman and Guitarist/Composer Vishwanath Subramanian.
Prisoners of Geography – Book Review
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall is an enjoyable read that traces the worlds geography and its impact on today's geopolitics. I…